N.C. Department of Health and Human Services Closely Monitoring a Traveler from Liberia

Press release ^ | Sun, November 2 2014 | NC Dept of Health

[SweetAkitoRose]

The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services (NC DHHS) and Durham and Person County Health Departments are working closely with Duke University Hospital to monitor a patient who departed from Liberia and arrived in the United States via Newark Liberty International Airport on October 31. The individual arrived in Person County, N.C. on November 1 and developed a fever this morning (November 2).

The individual did not have any symptoms upon arrival in the United States and does not have any additional symptoms at this time. The individual also had no known exposure to Ebola while in Liberia.

It is important to note that the patient's fever could indicate other illnesses. The patient will be evaluated for possible causes of fever, including testing for Ebola.

As part of our collaborative partnership, Gov. Pat McCrory, as well as the State Emergency Response Team, have been notified and are on standby to respond as needed. Secretary Aldona Wos and NC DHHS staff, in consultation with the CDC and local health departments, are working to ensure that all appropriate protocols are being followed to protect the health and safety of North Carolinians.

Duke University Hospital in Durham is prepared and equipped for the evaluation, isolation and treatment of suspected Ebola patients. The patient was transported from Person County using the appropriate health and safety protocols. The patient will remain in a contained, isolated and secured unit until the results of testing are known. These precautions are being taken based on the patient's recent travel from Liberia.

A blood sample from the patient will be sent to the State Laboratory of Public Health, in the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, for preliminary testing. The preliminary results of the patient's first Ebola test are expected to be completed early tomorrow morning.

[SweetAkitoRose]

Press conference is supposedly happening now.

[Secret Agent Man]

wonder why we don’t have to monitor travellers from other places.

but closing off the border/flights to these people would somehow make it worse here, says the cdc political mouthpiece.

[lightman]

It is important to note that the patient's fever could indicate other illnesses

Bears repeating: Fever by itself means NOTHING...or rather, the possibility of too many things ranging from an infected toenail to Ebola

Something to keep in mind for those who put their trust in airport body temperature scans.

[DallasGal]

At this rate, we’ll have someone being monitored or tested in every dang state.

[11th_VA]

Is this the guy that was seen around inner city voting spots down there? (/joke)

[txhurl]

This should be very inspiring for NC RATS to go vote ‘for Obama’s Policies’ now that NC may have their own vector /s

[Palio di Siena]

What’s up with the doc in NY that went bowling, etc.
is he still in Bellvue?

[Ray76]

Send them to Ft. Kent, Maine.

[Ray76]

The airport temperature scan is theater.

[JSDude1]

And EBOLA comes to North Carolina, thanks OBAMA and HAGAN!!

[JohnBrowdie]

I hate to be political about a potential health crisis, but this oughta move another percent or two away from the hagin column (and maybe even the libertarian fag boy pizza delivery guy) and into the tillis column.

And rightly so. A travel ban should have been implemented weeks ago, and people like hagin and obama have prevented it.

[mtrott]

Yet more proof that the vaunted “airport screenings” are pretty much useless. Both Mr. Duncan and Dr. Spencer were afebrile and asymptomatic when they stepped off the planes in the US.

[catnipman]

“Ebola is not spread through the air”

Well, then, health officials are lying, because even the CDC says indirect contact with aerosol droplets sprayed from an infected person via cough or sneeze can transmit the infection. To quote the CDC:

“droplets (e.g., splashes or sprays) of respiratory or other secretions from a person who is sick with Ebola could be infectious”

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping...

A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread

[null and void]

Not much to see here.

It's going to be a looooooooooong flu season!

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your......

(Since all records of obama's past were lost in a tragic boating accident and fire, no one can be certain that the guy in the red circle isn't him...)

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Smokin' Joe]

You’re Welcome, Alamo-Girl!